The Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) told FERC late last week that it has received a series of key federal waterbody crossing permits, bolstering its case to restart construction on the 300-mile, 2 million Dth/d natural gas conduit.

The Huntington, WV, Pittsburgh and Norfolk, VA, districts of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have all completed Nationwide Permit 12 reviews for the pipeline, MVP said in a letter filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday. The developer submitted the information to supplement its request filed last Tuesday to restart construction on the pipeline.

As with other federal approvals for the embattled MVP project, the NWP 12 permitting came under scrutiny in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which vacated a key permit...